Dusseldorp a small town strongly fortified on the land side, but open on the river Rhine which
we were obliged to cross, (on one { 94 } of the same machines that I have mention'd yesterday)2 before we got there, it is in the Dutchy of Burgin [Berg] and is subject to the King of Prussia. There is a famous cabinet of Paintings here,
but as we only stopp'd here to dine, and the cabinet not being then open, we did not
see it. We set off from Dusseldorp directly after dinner and arriv'd at Cologne at about 8 o'clock; on the way we pass'd
by a palace in which the Emperor, or the Archduke lodge, whenever they come this way.
The roads this day were pretty good, but the produce of the ground is the same as
what we have seen all along, that is, wheat, Buck wheat, and Spelts. We cross'd the
Rhine again, when we got opposite Cologne, where there is a village, inhabited by
Jews; A Nasty, dirty, Place indeed, and fit only for Jews to live in.

1. The first part of this entry is missing; see the preceding note. According to Dana's
Journal, the party left Hochstrass at 6 A.M. for Cologne, a distance of sixty English
miles, and arrived at noon in Dusseldorf, at which point JQA's Diary continues.

2. JQA's reference is to his entry of 10 July. The journey probably made Diary entries on a day-to-day basis difficult, if not
impossible. Under these circumstances entries for 10 and 11 July were probably written
on the same day.

3. Here follow, on about a page and one-quarter of the Diary, the third and fourth paragraphs
of The Spectator No. 631 (ed. Bond, 5:157).